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During the 2020 lockdown, photographer and BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Karni Arieli began documenting her family in pictures. Others did the same, and so the idea for a major international photography project was born. Mothers grabbed their cameras, and Karni decided to start a visual movement. The motivation was complex: to find comfort, to find an occupation that is fulfilling through photography as an art form, to be able to communicate to others without words and feel solidarity, to share everyday life, which can be lonely despite being turbulent. In mid-April 2021, Karni started an Instagram feed called EYE MAMA. The community of artistic mothers quickly grew to over 4,000 and counting. Out of anonymity, this created an unstoppable movement that is now being channelled into a book. “My hope is that this is a look into the world of the home and lockdown that hasn’t been previously seen or pictured.” KARNI Text in English and German. AUTHOR: Karni Arieli is a photographer and filmmaker of Israeli-British descent. A mother of two boys, she creates casual fantasy films and still pictures. Karni is one half of the directing duo Karni and Saul, BAFTA-nominated creators of music videos, commercials and short films. Under the name k & s, they have made films for Random Acts, Nowness, Film4 and the BBC. Karni also continues to work on the ongoing art/photography project, EYE MAMA, which features honest, candid motherhood from female photographers around the world. It has been featured in Vogue, Creative Review and the British Journal of Photography and now has over 25,000 submissions from 35 countries. SELLING POINTS: . A plea for the mothers who suffered the most professionally and socially during the pandemic of the last two years and felt left alone . An exciting and intimate look at the tireless female workers and their ‘workplaces,’ where ‘time off’ has always been a foreign phrase . For the first time, the book addresses the equal recognition of the most important person in everyone’s life 150 colour illustrations